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Lindéngruppen company Alex Begg bought a world-renowned knitwear producer in November 2020. The strong people culture in Alex Begg has been the main facilitator for successfully integrating the knitting business into the current operations.

The Children’s Rights and Business Workbook, which Lindéngruppen helped to develop last year, is now providing the foundation for Global Child Forum’s new Academy that aims to inspire large companies to adopt a proactive approach to children’s rights.

In 2021, Lindéngruppen company Höganäs made significant progress on implementing its roadmap to be climate neutral by 2045 – by developing bottom-up action plans with its operations and integrating climate action into its overall business plan.

Lindéngruppen is a partner to Svensk Kolinlagring – a platform for researchers, farmers and companies with the objective to promote carbon sequestration and regenerative practices in Swedish agriculture.

Bruno Guillon, who became a board member in March 2021, brings extensive business management experience that will help Alex Begg with its future development.

Colart aspires to be a catalyst for a more sustainable art materials industry. In terms of plastics, the company is working towards zero single-use plastics by finding more sustainable alternatives in its packaging and products.

Lindéngruppen’s 2020 Sustainability Report, with a new and improved structure, provides an update on the Group’s sustainability progress and its ambitions going forward.

How Lindéngruppen and our Group companies developed during 2020.

Höganäs, which is 50 percent owned by Lindéngruppen, is on a journey to become climate neutral by 2045. An important step towards this ambition would be to replace fossil coal with renewable biochar in its sponge iron production process, which is the company’s largest source of carbon dioxide emissions.

Lindéngruppen’s annual Global Management Conference took place in Virtual Reality, which created an innovative collaboration space, saved time and more than 35 tonnes of CO2, and has re-defined how we communicate.

The 34th Beckers Art Award has been awarded to Malmö-based artist Youngjae Lih who creates art through reverse engineering among other techniques.

In the summer of 2020, Lindéngruppen company Beckers launched employee Check-In Conversations to establish a strong feedback culture throughout the company.

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) makes a difference in the world. We too want to make a positive impact and contribute to the health and wellbeing of people all around the world. Therefore, we support MSFs work.

Lindéngruppen company Colart has adapted to the challenges and opportunities created by the Covid-19 pandemic to look after its people, retailers and consumers.

Lindéngruppen company Alex Begg has bought the trade and assets of world-renowned knitwear producer Scott & Charters, strengthening both companies offer to their customers.

Christophe Sabas is the new CEO at Lindéngruppen company Beckers Group after being acting CEO since June 2020. He tells us about his long career at Beckers, his insights as CEO to date and his future vision for the company.

This year’s Global Management Conference was an international virtual summit gathering management teams and boards in the Lindéngruppen companies.

Global Child Forum held a Digital ActionLab on 8 October, to launch a business guidance workbook on children’s rights that Lindéngruppen played an active role in developing. Lindéngruppen owner Jenny Lindén Urnes was one of the speakers at the ActionLab.

Lindéngruppen company Höganäs is proactively working with its partners to reduce the emissions from the transport of its materials and products. Such efforts are part of Höganäs’ Climate Roadmap and its goal to become climate neutral by 2045

Alex Begg has stepped up its work to remove chemicals from its supply chain by collaborating with customers and suppliers – to ensure beyond compliance chemical management.

The Lindéngruppen company Beckers – a leading global supplier of industrial and coil coatings – has embarked on an ambitious sustainability journey by 2030. The recent strategy review resulted in clear focus on three main areas – Products with impact, Operations with impact and People with impact. For each area milestones and targets have been set that will take the company towards its vision of becoming the world’s most sustainable industrial coatings company.

Höganäs, which is 50 percent owned by Lindéngruppen, contributes toward more circular resource use in society by promoting the use of its residual materials – to create economic value and environmental benefit.

Our sustainability report present how we integrate relevant social, environmental and economic priorities into our business and across the companies in our group. 

Lindéngruppen companies are proactively helping society overcome COVID-19 by manufacturing hand sanitiser, providing knowledge, offering surplus supplies to healthcare and making donations to health charities.

Lindéngruppen has a long-term strategic partnership with the Blekinge Institute of Technology (Blekinge Tekniska Högskola – BTH) in southern Sweden that helps drive the company’s sustainability agenda forward.

How Colart’s discontinued products is being put to good use

Alex Begg’s ambition has always been to produce garments of the highest quality and the company is proud to meet stringent and demanding standards. But even the best practices can benefit from innovation.

Artist Fredrik Åkum is the 2020 recipient of the Beckers Art Award. Fredrik was born in 1987 and is based in Gothenburg, where he also graduated from the Valand Academy in 2013.

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) makes a difference in the world. We want to do that too. Therefore, we support their life-saving work.

For a decade, Global Child Forum has been working to promote children’s rights – focusing primarily on engaging the business sector to drive positive change for the world’s children.

Sustainability Directors from Colart, Beckers, Höganäs and Alex Begg gathered in London on December 3 for Lindéngruppen's annual Sustainability Meeting.

On 8 October the management teams of Lindéngruppen and its companies convened in Stockholm for its third annual Global Management Conference.

The Industry Council (Industrirådet) awarded its annual equality award for 2019 to Höganäs. Höganäs is praised for its extensive and strategic work for gender equality, both at the company and in the industry as a whole. The award was presented by Åsa Lindhagen - Minister of Gender Equality - during The Industrial day in Sandviken.

Mikael Bratt, President and CEO of automotive safety supplier Autoliv Inc, Stockholm, Sweden, joins the Höganäs AB Board.

The ultra-modern hub, located in Piscataway, New Jersey, was formally opened on 15th May 2019 by Colart CEO Dennis van Schie and Lindéngruppen CEO Paul Schrotti. Flexible, energy efficient and cross-functional, the new space is home to the regional head office teams, the North America distribution centre and two new artist studios.

Lindéngruppen has produced its second sustainability report. The report presents how we integrate relevant social, environmental and economic priorities into our business and across the companies in our group.

As of September 2018, Lindéngruppen has appointed Lars Gunnar Schultz as its new CFO. Lars Gunnar Schultz brings to Lindéngruppen more than 30 years of experience, including an extensive background in financial planning and operations, management and strategy.

Lindéngruppen has produced its first sustainability report. Covering the efforts and progress in the field of the companies we own, but primarily describing how we as an owner drive these issues.

Representatives from Lindéngruppen, Beckers, Höganäs and Alex Begg attended the 10th Global Child Forum in Stockholm.

On 29th March, PM Theresa May met staff at our Alex Begg factory in Ayr, Scotland, as part of a day-long tour to hear the views of businesses and other organisations across the UK, one year before the European Union exit.

The film maker and artist Theresa Traore Dahlberg is the 2019 recipient of the Beckers Art Award.

On 1st March 2018, Höganäs AB took over part of international metal powder producer H.C. Starck, namely the division for surface coating: Surface Technology & Ceramic Powders (STC). This is Höganäs’ largest acquisition so far and one of three in a short period.

Petra Hultman receives the 31st annual Beckers Art Award for her ability to visually and personally, no matter the technique, reach out to us viewers in an intelligent and sensitive artistic expression, which testifies of larger and more important issues.

After a seven-year-long renovation that included construction of a new extension by architect Petra Gipp, Bruksgården in Höganäs, Sweden, has been re-inaugurated as the headquarters of Lindéngruppen.

As of January 2018 Paul Schrotti will be the new CEO of Lindéngruppen. Paul comes from Axel Johnson AB, where he since 2010 has held the position as Executive Vice President.

Stockholm hyper-realism painter Anna Camner has been named the 2017 recipient of the Beckers Art Award.

Lindéngruppen has appointed Jenny Johansson as Chief Communication and Sustainability Officer – a new role that reflects the group's ambition to integrate sustainability into all aspects of its businesses.

Gothenburg-based artist Tomas Lundgren, a painter of works based on old photographs and portraits, has been announced as the recipient of the 2016 Beckers Art Award.

Lindéngruppen has signed a long-term agreement to support the Blekinge Institute of Technology’s (BTH) internationally recognised research on strategic sustainable development.

Lindéngruppen has donated SEK 200,000 (€20,000) to help Doctors Without Borders tackle the refugee crisis in Europe and the Middle East.

Swedish wood sculptor Julia Bondesson has been named the recipient of the 2015 Beckers Art Award and is to exhibit her works at a five-week exhibition in Stockholm starting on January 24.

Former IKEA chief executive officer Mikael Ohlsson has joined the board of directors of Lindéngruppen.

ColArt has unveiled an ambitious sustainability programme that will see the world’s largest manufacturer of artists’ materials make sustainable development the core pillar of its business strategy.

Photographs by David Molander go on show in Stockholm on January 25 to celebrate the Swedish photographer being named recipient of the 2014 Beckers Art Award.

Lindéngruppen company Beckers Group has published its first sustainability report and adopted targets aimed at making it the world’s most sustainable industrial coatings supplier.

Lindéngruppen-owned ColArt has scored a hit in the international spray paint market after launching the first water-based aerosol that meets the needs of traditional fine artists and urban artists in one can.

Sara Möller, a young ceramic artist from southern Sweden, has received the 2013 Beckers Art Award, one of the country’s most prestigious art prizes.

Lindéngruppen owner and chairman Jenny Lindén Urnes gives Our News her view on the family business and some of the challenges that lie ahead.

The Beckers Art Award, one of Sweden’s top prizes for innovative young artists, has marked its 25th jubilee by announcing Malmö-based artist Elin Behrens as winner of its 2012 award.